In recent months, Ukrainian people have started going out to cinemas and restaurants again. But as the war drags on, everyone understands the importance of partying.” “Those weren’t really parties yet, we would have gotten a lot of hate for that and I wouldn’t have been ready for it either. “It was an interdisciplinary event with art, music, theatre, and film mainly featuring work by young Ukrainian artists,” he says. “We’re part of a cultural front,” says Pledov, discussing his involvement in the second edition of art festival Art is a Weapon, which takes place on the 25th of February, to mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion. The first edition, which he launched in May of last year, was the first major festival in the country since the start of the invasion. At the beginning of the war, he dropped his day job to help with the manufacturing of bulletproof vests, but has since gone back to music. Musician and event organiser Harry Pledov was one of the first people in Ukraine to throw a large-scale cultural event after the invasion.
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